skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. There's a US media narrative that taxes and health care are worse in Canada than the US but:

1) You will likely pay more in taxes in California than Canada.

2) It's easier to itemize self-employment tax expenses in Canada, so you can easily pay half the taxes of the US. (I paid 12% of total income the last year I worked in Toronto.)

3) Everybody I know in Canada is happy with health care, and infinitely happier than Americans who've received false bills.

4) Startups have a big advantage in Canada because of the state health care, and unrelated lower salary expectations.

However, salaries are lower in Canada because companies pay less (like Europe or anywhere outside the US), but that's not related to taxes or health care.
I think a bigger issue is the lack of venture capital. It's significantly harder to to raise the multi-million seed rounds needed to sustain Google/Amazon salary in Waterloo/Toronto
Are the series technical or rather vague in that regard? If they are, how accurate are they?
Edit: apparently I missed the sarcasm/satire. But that says something about where we are today as a society and what is within the realm of possibility.

No it’s not that simple. Especially because you’ve forgotten about past Capitol riots at McConnell’s office (https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/25/politics/sunrise-movement-mcc...), and Pelosi’s office (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...), and the legislative chambers when Kavanaugh was appointed (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45754771). Those riots were instigated, condoned, and encouraged by left leaning politicians not the right.

There are clear double standards in journalism both due to what they cover and how they cover it - see https://www.allsides.com/blog/capitol-hill-breach-riot-cover... or just watch the softball questions at the white house press conferences now. Or consider that you probably hadn’t heard of the above incidents I enumerated. News media is incredibly biased and even tenured houses of journalism have just become the next theater for activists to take over and amplify their worldviews from, using missing context, selection bias, and subtle redefinition of words like “peaceful”.

Free speech is the only thing that can help both sides seek the truth and it is the only thing that can prevent each side from thinking the other side must be tyrannically suppressed.
> ...without needing to install a bunch of dependencies just for the build system...

Ahem

autogen.sh: command not found

Autotools should be put out to pasture. They serve literally no useful purpose at all in 2021.
im happy this is getting more attention and a discussion now, i looked at it friday night and it had no discussion or upvotes just bad timing i guess but i was blown away by how well thought out and executed the authors work is, thank you for bringing it to others' attention. i hope they get some use out of it, i definitely got inspiration from it
Headphones with no music to separate home acoustics & work time, so that there is a meaningful separation
My point is that its not as new as people think it is at all. The internet, however, has reached a point where being able to point it out en masse, has obviated journalists need to do it slyly under the table.

If the game is called out and you still hold the cards, why not just be frank about it, like they are doing now.
Feels a bit like something of becoming. A new successor to ham radio for the tech and internet. Love the idea.
"Michael Young popularised but did not coin the term “meritocracy”. That came in 1956, two years before his book, when in the magazine Socialist Commentary (to which Young contributed) the industrial sociologist Alan Fox put the word in quotation marks and defined it as “the society in which the gifted, the smart, the energetic, the ambitious and the ruthless are carefully sifted out and helped towards their destined positions of dominance, where they proceed not only to enjoy the fulfilment of exercising their natural endowments but also to receive a fat bonus thrown in for good measure”.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/21/michael-youn...
Tarsnap seems to have become a multi-man operation.

https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/commits/master
Very nice. Built on Jekyll, apparently: https://github.com/ablwr/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus
In an earlier era (or even today), how would this be different from asking the telephone company to drop calls that are being made by/to "bad actors". Without a warrant compelling them to do so.

One difference is tech companies, including "foundations" like Signal, are not federally regulated in the way that telephone companies are.
I think GitHub Enterprise includes all the features they would need.
Every time the states did something to check the integrity of the election, such as hand-recounting the ballots, or doing a signature verification audit, it was simply dismissed out of hand as a cover-up and not a real investigation.

The bar set by the "stop the steal" crowd was that unless you uncovered that Donald Trump really won the election, you didn't investigate hard enough.
Freedom of speech, like any ideal or philosophy eventually reaches practical limits. Everything is bad in absolutes. Tech, particularly social tech, began with noble yet naive absolutist ideals surrounding speech which has led to ham-fisted over corrections and contradictory take-downs.
In any plausible doomsday scenario, would scavenged Z80s (with compatible displays and input devices) really be more readily available than old Intel-based laptops, or even Raspberry Pis?

And if your post-collapse computer can’t read PDFs or play videos, how much useful preserved information can you really access?
Pretty insane. “Dark Tide” is a great read on the subject. There’s a playground on the site now- the area it describes is compact and walkable (as is much of Boston to be fair).
> politically powerful job placement programs

What do you mean here?
If you invest $1000 in Google, you’re investing <$10 in SpaceX, based on their last round’s valuation.
R/wallstreetbets vs. institutional investors. GameStop stock manipulation
From the blog post:

>In addition to targeting users via social engineering, we have also observed several cases where researchers have been compromised after visiting the actors’ blog.

Aka, they were compromised after simply visiting a malicious blog. This is why the blog post emphasizes the Chrome Vulnerability Program, and specifically mentions that the victim was running a fully patched Windows 10 machine and fully patched Chrome.

>At the time of these visits, the victim systems were running fully patched and up-to-date Windows 10 and Chrome browser versions.

RCE exploits on web browsers are typically written in JS. I would also bet $$$ that if they had JS disabled, they would not have been compromised.
So let's get me get this straight - you have to deliver hydrogen to all existing gas stations. Which is expensive and requires an entire new distribution infrastructure. So as an owner of a hydrogen car, I will have to bare the brunt of that.

Second, you have to make sure that the seal is tight? What happens if there is a leak? What are the safety standards? Do we trust the average person to do this correctly (especially since this is the first time most everyone will be doing this)?

And third -- There isn't a performance benefit? So why would I buy this over the existing options?

With electrics, none of these are an issue - distribution happens over the grid, fueling up is dead easy (we all know how to plug into a power outlet right?) and there are huge performance gains.

I do not see the advantage of this at all. If anyone else here has some insight that I am missing here - please enlighten me. This to me is just a gigantic dead end. Toyota went down the wrong technology path.
which is why Krebs insisted on paper ballot backups. which were subsequently counted and found to match the original tabulations. all the voting machines do is print out a marked ballot, which the voter then checks for accuracy and scans into a tabulator.
Edited my response to be less sarcastic. But honestly it’s hard for me to read something like this and believe you aren’t being deliberately misleading.

All this stuff is only stored in an encrypted form that signal never has the keys for.

And all this stuff is only applicable if you choose to set it.

Yes, for Alice to see Bobs profile Alice has to download some bytes. Those bytes live somewhere.

The difference is that, unlike every other app, signal spent a ton of time making this work in a way that The signal service can’t read your data, even if they wanted to.
i found it very accurate technically if not historically. it doesn't really linger on the technical aspects though, it's very much just used as window dressing
> Obviously, information must be controlled. It’s that simple.

Better hope the people you agree with get the first go at doing so, because after you open that can of worms, you're not getting a second chance.
The left and the right used to both agree on free speech as a fundamental inalienable principle, even as late as the early 2010s. That has only changed in recent times and I do think the game has changed in journalism as well, as a result of that trend.

See http://campaignforfreespeech.org/free-speech-under-dire-thre...
The article notes that there appear to have been exploits from browsing to the attackers' blogs in addition to the malware-laden software project.
Yep, they could pull a Whatsapp.
You're pretty much spot on, by the writers own admission.

At first, "What matters?" was a question the show's creators themselves couldn't answer. When Cantwell and Chris Rogers wrote the pilot for Halt and Catch Fire, they had little in mind but jumping on board one of the shows they already liked. "We're both in our early 30s, so the shows that made us wanna do this were the great 'difficult men' shows: The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Wire," Rogers says. "We wrote the pilot in a way that was set up to ape them: Joe McMillan is a traditional antihero, and the world is organized around him in that way." But when the pilot was bought by AMC for production, rather than simply used as a staffing script to land "The Chrises" (as Halt's cast and crew universally call them) in a writers' room for a preexisting series, things changed. "As we got in there and started doing it, we had a writers' groove. We figured out what was our voice, as opposed to the voice that felt like it was emulating the shows we liked."

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a47905/halt-and-cat...

In many ways it's the opposite of what I feel like happens to most shows where they have extensively planned and worked on their first season because it's a multi-year effort in the making and then when they get renewed (if they get renewed) they have to figure out where to take it in a fraction of a time that they'd never really planned for.
Lots of phones have:

* designs that have to be cracked open with a significant chance of damage

* glue or seals that can't easily be undone/redone

* hard to get replacement parts

* software lockouts

* permanently locked bootloaders even when they stop getting security patches
While in general I agree that election systems should be obviously secure to the average voter, in this case I seriously doubt that it would help. Fundamentally the issue here is that Trump and his hangers on are absolutely willing to just lie their heads off, and his fans don’t seem to care one bit. If their fans will believe obvious bullshit such as the theory that the dead Hugo Chavez rigged an election for Biden with the help of Dominion, why would they believe what the states have to say about the election?

Heck, several counties have had to point out that they don’t use Dominion machines. If such basic facts can’t dissuade those who think this election was stolen, it’s not clear what would do it.
I felt similarly and gave up on it after a while, but your comment is making me reconsider
@benchess - yes this is what i meant. Using the operator framework.

But more generally, MPI over ssh on a large kubernetes deployment is not a very common pattern. Any reason you chose that ?

Have you looked at Ray or Torch-Elastic (which seems to be officially supported by AWS, etc as well) https://github.com/pytorch/elastic ?
Is it any good? What's with all the dislikes?
Well it is, because the more you are on your computer, the less you are outside.
He was portrayed as a frustrated but talented hardware engineer who undermined himself quite a bit, but in a sympathetic way.
gordon was also an excellent engineer, although he had some personal lapses
They influence the magnitude of the expected payout, certainly. (In a negative way)
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
As an example, here's ZeroTier moving from GPLv3 to BSL: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/commit/52a166a71#dif...
This was the concern with the mismatching sample groups. If the decreased efficacy was because of age differences rather the dosing differences - congrats! You just convinced the entire UK to adopt only a significant alt wise dosing scheme because the vaccine is actually worse at people
Over 65.

The science behind this vaccine has been sloppily done. Let’s hope that the USA trials and the J&J vaccine make up for it.
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room."

-Socrates
I've been in a similar situation. Most of the aggravation is because of doing it all myself and not being a particularly social network communication type.

I've hired a few and improving on social outreach too. I think it is helpful because engagement creates a community by itself. And, delegation is extremely rewarding when done reasonably right.

Both of them inherently create a discussion board and a decent platform to express thoughts.
> If I throw trash around in the society, I would be fined hundreds of dollars, and failing to produce the amount, will face punishment and even jail.

You, presumably, are not mentally ill, mentally disabled, or suffering from severe substance addiction. The majority of homeless people (besides Roma) in most European countries are some mix of these.

When you say "just fine/jail the homeless for bad behavior", what you are really saying is "mentally ill/disabled people should not be helped, they should be jailed". Do you still stand by that statement?
Maybe. But it’s no less a thesis then the thesis that the vaccine is more effective with a half dose. This is why test design matters. You can’t say which of the thesis is true.
Well, considering how looking at kubernetes config makes me question the choices I have made in my life that led me into this moment, "self-discovery" is not too far off, I think.
Satellites don't land. Boosters do. They have lots of very high-spec mechanical parts--turbines and valves exposed to high-temperature, oscillating high-pressure, often oxidizing fluids--that must be inspected for damage and wear, so as not to cause explosion on the next flight. In addition, high-stress non-moving parts, e.g. nozzle neck, can erode under high-temperature matter flows.

Exploding rockets ruin their day, disappoint customers, and endanger any people onboard.
If you use your phone for calls, I highly recommend a good headset that can handle full duplex audio. For years I couldn’t figure out why I hated talking to people on my cell phone when I loved talking over land lines. I finally realized that whenever I talked and the other person cut out, it wasn’t them stopping talking, it was the phone not sending audio to my ear. A friend of mine who used to work in telco verified that cell phones will often use half duplex for various reasons, like saving bandwidth , saving battery, even things like noise calcellation and ducking can reduce the quality of a call. He said that often blue tooth headsets will often bypass some of the software involved. My personal experience is that things arent’t as bad as they were 5 years ago, but I’ll still prefer the audio with a decent headset.
Or a Jobs wannabe in a world where Jobs and the Macintosh exist.
I'm happy that guy did well. But one guy taking a negative expected value bet and winning big doesn't really help all the other little guys on WSB who got roped in to buying GME at 100+ today or might even be ITM on their calls but will get crushed by insane spreads, theta decay due to halts and don't have the capital to exercise.

I'm not spiteful of KG and the other people who are making the real money off all the crowds at the option casino, if anything I respect their shrewdness - Citadel prints insane money on these option premiums, and as a bonus KG gets to invest in Melvin at firesale prices and probably gets to extract insane terms.

As far as 'jealous fucks working miserable engineering jobs' - I think you might be projecting a bit there :)
From what I have seen, job placement programs flounder due to lack of strong, consistent interest from elected officials. Without sticks or carrots from local Govs, area employers ignore employer services in favor of whatever hiring practices they're already using.

source: Five years as employment service specialist and another five years trying to help my kids get jobs in spite of first-time hires being algorithmically blackballed by default.
Any way to bump HN readers up the shipping queue, perchance.
I forgot to touch on this in my reply...If what I mentioned in my reply did in fact occur, you now understand why "recounts" wouldn't make any difference.
I assume you meant rockets in your first sentence, as most satellites (other than spacecraft) don't survive landing :)

SpaceX/Elon hasn't gone into a huge amount of detail about what's involved in refurbishing the first stage. I imagine a lot of it comes down to inspecting parts and making sure they haven't been damaged or worn out, and replacing the ones that have. Maybe cleaning out soot from the engines. The stated goal is to not have to do any inspection or refurbishment between flights, but they aren't there yet.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1143195449425321984
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1313450351366873090
Bazel is obviously an insane idea, but autotools is as "heavy-weight" a build system as they come. I struggle to imagine something more convoluted and bloated than autotools.
It's clear that some people have done some bad things, and they used the internet (mostly facebook but whatever) to communicate.

There are 2 approaches to fixing this.

1 is to undercut the roots of radicalism and polarization. I would say to do that by radically redistributing wealth and democratizing government. Yes, the capitol stormers mostly weren't poor, but Trumpism is in large part a reaction of horror by small business owners at being squeezed by monopolies, and what popular support they have would evaporate if the government fixed things instead of being run as the public relations firm and personal military of all the large companies put together.

2 is to instead double down on physical repression (by funding police) and digital repression of dissenting viewpoints by abolishing any right to privacy. This seems to be the direction we're heading. It already happened in large part under the last few presidents but Signal is obviously in the crosshairs.

I'm not mad at you. But I am frustrated that this obviously bad approach has support - of not dealing with root causes and material problems, but committing to suppression of beliefs on both the right and left that are obviously a reaction to those root causes.
Say what you want about Trump, but at least he didn't come up with some new "Patriot Act" given the opportunity coronavirus provided.

Never let a good disaster go to waste.

Seems like free speech is on a tight rope after the "insurrection". Sure didn't waste any time.
Possibly this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24984862
I've been trying to build something like this last month or so. I was studying the source code of beepbox: https://github.com/johnnesky/beepbox

Does anyone know if there is an easier, higher level abstraction library for audio backend? The approach in beepbox is rather low level and you can make really interesting sounds, with the trade-off being your backend being really complex (literal sound waves).

I searched for MIDI output on web with sound font support but couldn't find anything helpful.
it’s hard for me to read something like this and believe you aren’t being deliberately misleading.
All this stuff is only stored in an encrypted form that signal never has the keys for.
Why not just read a newspaper?
Mozilla's Climate Commitments
On the contrary, in the UK (and Ireland) people are extremely racist towards both Travellers and Roma. They treat both races with equal contempt.

I'm not saying this to excuse the negative behavior of the Traveller or Roma communities which I've been on the receiving end of several times.

However, we need to look at this from both ends and accept that us (the ethnic majority) automatically treating members of a particular ethnic minority as scum doesn't help to change their behavior.
It sort of reminds me of this super short research paper, in the sense that it's breaking the norms of a generally serious type of publication.

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/shortest-paper-ever-published-i...
Ok, so take a look at this data page from Germany, if you mess with the graphs a bit, you'll see new cases drop off around June, in time for summer holidays. Germany chose to reduce restrictions at that time. That's reasonable, right?
https://news.google.com/covid19/map?hl=en-IE&mid=%2Fm%2F0345...

So New Zealand was even more successful. By July, they got things well and truly under control:
https://news.google.com/covid19/map?hl=en-IE&mid=%2Fm%2F0ctw...

Or take France:
https://news.google.com/covid19/map?hl=en-IE&mid=%2Fm%2F0f8l...

All of these are having a bit more trouble with the second wave, Clearly something has changed about the nature of Covid. But you can see them weathering the first wave, and dealing with the second wave. You see how the number of cases drops off to near 0 during summer?

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This is the USA:
https://news.google.com/covid19/map?hl=en-IE&gl=IE&ceid=IE%3...

Take care: that Y axis is much larger than the other examples above.

On June 1 2020 there were still 22000 measured new cases on that day alone. Sure that's a slight drop from the 34000 cases on April 9. But that's not really safe to loosen restrictions, now is it?

(Now we do know that that's an aggregate and some individual states have done better. You can drill down to get that information.)
They've been trying since 2014. Somehow it never seems to happen.
Meta question:

> What's with all the dislikes?

Assuming that you're referring to the GP, I'm curious how you're determining it's disliked-ness. It's not grey for me.

I don't think some massive karma level confers ability to see comment scores, either.
Ask HN: Local Development Environment
what's your go to way of setting up a simple but efficient shareable local development environment. lately been running into problems with vagrant and recent ubuntu images. and maybe will go back to using docker + skaffold so wanted to know what are people using these days.
The Myth of Meritocracy (2018)
You're comparing the extremest fringe of one protest to the nonviolent core of the other. We have to compare fringe to fringe here.

The extremest fringe of the summer protests was burning cop cars and and a courthouse in one instance. There was even an area that declared itself an Autonomous Zone. That is insurrection. Not going to achieve anything though so everyone ignored it at the time. It wasn't any more of a problem than the Capitol riots.
Klook raises US$200m more to boost merchant SaaS solutions
Hi Ben, could I ask the size of your team managing these clusters and development efforts?